To John Higgins 25 December 1854
Down Farnborough Kent
Christmas Day 54/
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your note & account, & I beg to acknowledge the receipt of £217 : s 16 : d 8 placed to my account at the Union Bank.—1
I wish all your large Family Party a happy Christmas: as for myself we have had a gloomy for I have had two of my little Boys very ill with Fever & Inflammation,2 but they are at last, thank God, better.
My dear Sir | Yours very truly | Ch. R. Darwin John Higgins Esqe
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions health of children.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1615
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Higgins
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/83)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1615,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1615.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
